Messy Room by Shel Silverstein (1981): Poems ESL Listening

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)
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Messy Room by Shel Silverstein (1981): poems

Video: https://youtu.be/iAdlAQBHHDQ

Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/_6ndhsk

Suggested Use:

Step 1: Look at the vocabulary. Check any words that you don’t know in your dictionary.

Step 2: Listen to the video. (Listen only.  Don’t look at the poem yet).

Step  3: Practice the vocabulary on Quizlet 

Step 4: Watch the video again.  This time look at the poem. Read and listen at the same time.

Step 5: Practice the vocabulary on Quizlet again 

Step 6: Listen one last time.  The last time, don’t look at the poem. 

Vocabulary

ashamed, asleep, beneath, carelessly, chair, closet, damp, dear, door, familiar, hall, hang, huh, jam, lamp, lizard, messy, mucky, oh dear, overstuffed, pants, scarf, should, smelly, sock, stick, sweater, throw, throw on, underwear, vest, wedged, whosever, workbook

Proper Names

Donald, Ed, Robert, Willie

Messy Room by Shel Silverstein (1981): poems

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--

Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,

I knew it looked familiar!

Vocabulary

ashamed - feeling guilty or embarrassed about something you have done:

He was ashamed to admit his mistake.

asleep - to be sleeping:

The children are asleep.

beneath - under something, or in a lower position than something:

He hid the letter beneath a pile of papers.

carelessly - adverb of careless-- not giving enough attention to what you are doing

chair - a seat for one person, with a back, usually four legs, and sometimes two arms:

Flint leaned back in his chair.

closet - a large cupboard for keeping clothes in

damp - slightly wet, usually in an unpleasant way:

It was cold and damp outside.

dear - A dear person is someone who you know and like very much:

He's one of my dearest friends.

door - the part of a building, room, vehicle, or piece of furniture that you open or close to get inside it or out of it:

Please shut the door behind you.

familiar - easy to recognize because of being seen, met, heard, etc before:

It's nice to see a few familiar faces (= people that I recognize) around here.

hall - a room or passage in a building, which leads to other rooms:

I left my coat and umbrella in the hall.

hang - to fasten something so that the top part is fixed but the lower part is free to move, or to be fastened in this way:

Can you find anywhere to hang your coat?

huh - used to ask a question, or to express surprise, anger, etc:

Huh! What a waste of time.

jam - to push something somewhere firmly and tightly:

She jammed her hands into her pockets.

to fill a place completely:

The streets were jammed with cars.

lamp - a piece of equipment that produces light:

This is a table lamp.

lizard - a small animal with thick skin, a long tail, and four short legs

messy - untidy or dirty:

My son's bedroom is always messy.

mucky - dirty:

Get your mucky feet off that chair!

oh dear - used in expressions of anger, disappointment, sadness, or surprise:

Oh dear! I've lost my keys again.

overstuffed - filled with too much material or too many things:

They sat in overstuffed crimson leather chairs.

pants - a piece of clothing that covers the legs and has a separate part for each leg

scarf - a piece of cloth that you wear around your neck, head, or shoulders to keep warm or for decoration

should - used to say or ask what is the correct or best thing to do:

He should have gone to the doctor.

ski - one of a pair of long, thin pieces of wood or plastic that you wear on the bottom of boots to move over snow

smelly - having an unpleasant smell:

He has smelly feet.

sock - something that you wear on your foot inside your shoe:

This is a pair of black socks.

stick - to become joined to something or to make something become joined to something else, usually with a substance like glue:

Anne wants to stick a picture of her boyfriend on the wall.

sweater - a warm piece of clothing that covers the top of your body and is pulled on over your head

throw - to make something move through the air by pushing it out of your hand:

Amy will throw the ball to the dog.

throw on - to put something somewhere quickly and without thinking about it:

He usually throws his clothes on the floor and got into bed.

underwear - the clothes that you wear next to your skin, under your other clothes

vest - a piece of clothing with buttons at the front and no sleeves, that you wear over a shirt

wedge - to push something into a narrow space:

I was wedged between Andy and Pete in the back of the car.

whosever - of, belonging to, or relating to whomever:

Whosever hat this is, I wish he would come and claim it.

workbook - a book with questions and exercises in it that you use when you are learning something